Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-02-10
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confidently expected to see her squander it
were disappointed; on the contrary, it was
presently whispered that she was exceedingly
penurious. That admirable woman, Mrs
Silver. OF Red Dog. who accompanied
her to San Francisco TO assist her in mak.
ing purchases, was loud in her Indignation
"She cares more for two bits than | do
for five dollars. She wouldn't buy any
thing at the "City of Paris" because it was
~too expensive" and at last rugged her
self out, "a perfect guy, at some cheap slop-
shops in Market street. And after all
tbe care Jane and me took of her. giving up
our time and experience to her, she never so
much made Jane a single present" Popu-
lar opinion, which regarded Mrs. Stiv.r's at
teutioD purely speculative. was not
shocked at this Improbable denouement; but
when Peg refused to give anything TO clear
the mortgage Off the new Presbyterian
church. and even declined TO take shares in
the Union ditch, considered by many as an
equally sacred and safe investment, she bp-
gan to lose favor. Nevertheless. she sesined
to b. as regardless Of public opinion as she
had been before the trial; took small
house, in which she lived with an old woman
who had once been fellow ssrvant, on ap-
parently terms Of perfect equality, and
looked after her money. I wish ! could say
that she did this discreetly: but the fact is,
she biundered. The same logged per-
sistenco she had displayed in claiming her
rights was visible in her unsuccessful ven.
lures. She sunk 500, 600 IN worn out
shaft originally projected by the deceased
testator; she prolonged tho miserable exist
ence OF The Rockville Vanguard long after
it had ceased to interest even Its enemies;
she kept the doors OF the Rockville hotel
open when its custom had departed; she lost
the cooperation and favor of fellow capi-
talist through trifling misunderstanding, in
which she was derelict and impenitent, she
had three lawsuits on her hands that could
have been settled for a trifie. I note these
defects 20 show that she was by nc means a
heroine. quote her affair with Jack Fol-
insbee Co show she was scarcely tho average
woman.
That handsome, graceless yagabond had
struck the outskirts OF Red Dog in cyclone
OF dissipation. which left him a stranded but
still rather interesting wreck in ruinous
cabin not far from Peg Moffat's virgin
bower. Pale. crippled from excuses, with
voice quite tremulous from sympathetic
emotion more or less developed by stimu-
iants, be fingered languidly with much timo
on his hands and only u few neighbors In
this fascinating kind OF general deshabille Of
morals. dress and the emotions he ap-
peared before Peg Moffat. More than
that. be occasionally limped with
her through thc settlement The
critical eye OF Red Dog took in the singular
pair-Jack. yoluble, suffering. apparently
overcome by remorse. conscience. vitupera-
tion ard disease; and Peg. open m0uthed, high
colored, awkward, yet delighted; and the
critical eye OF Red Dog, seeing this, winked
meaningly at Rockville No one knew what
passed between them, but all observed that
one summer day Jack drove down the main
street Of Red Dog in an open buggy, with the
heiress of that town beside him Jack, albeit
q tride shaky, held the reins with something
Of his old dash; and Mistress Peggy, in an
enormous bonnet, with pearl colored ribbons
q shade darker than her hair, holding in her
short, piak-gloyei fingers bouquet Of yellow
rcsars stxuNutssy crimson II distzsssful